What if?

There have been many tragic events in history, many leading into others like dominos. One of the biggest things would by far be the holocaust. What would the world be like now if the holocaust somehow never happened? Things would be very different had Hitler never developed such hatred for them thus the horrific events seizing to exist. The Germans would not have lost their faith in hitler, causing the war to mayb not have ended when it did. This would shift all over, even the smallest thing not happening could be a big impact on how everything functions today. This could have also caused for Europe to fall under communist control. There would be more jews in Europe. The state of Israel may not have come to the exist in 1948 or maybe not as soon as it rose. Even before WW2, the Jews were buying land in Israel. If they already had land that was pretty big, the Jewish population was very likely to come around eventually. The holocuast not happening could have caused Germany to win the 2nd world war. The population would be consisted more of polish, German, and Russian. Many German Jews considered themselves German, in slaughtering the Jews, this caused Germany lost some of her best people. If there had been no holocaust, there would have been more Jews in Europe. More jews everywhere over all. About six million Jews were killed in the holocaust, and there are about thirteen million Jews around at the moment. There could be about twenty million around if the holocasut had never  happened. A lot of things would be different. 

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  TIt is arguable that if there was no holocaust, the State of Israel may not come to exist in 1948, because the sympathy would be on the side of the Arabs who have oil rather than the Jews, it was the holocaust that convinced the world, the Zionist state was necessary. also if there was no holocaust, Germany would no doubt have won the 2nd world war, because many German Jews considered themselves German, in slaughtering the Jews, Germany lost some of her best people. If there was no holocaust, there would have been more Jews in Europe.

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Night Blog: Violence

"Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere…" Once again, the young men bound and gagged her. When they actually struck her, people shouted their approval: "Keep her quite! Make that madwoman shut up. She’s not the only one here …" She received several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal." (2.35-38) Violence 

Since the Jews were so badly treated and tortured, they began to terrify each other as well. They were so afraid and started to turn on one another. They lash out at the women because she is telling them that something terrible is coming. They get scared that if they try to protect one another, they will too get punished for trying to stand up to them. They will take it as disrespect so they try to save themselves by making it seem like they hate their own kind as well. Whenever someone tries to break this thing apart they get even more angry and try to encourage violence agains that one person to keep from things getting worse. They start being violent against one another from fright. 

"Faster you filthy dogs!" We were no longer marching, we were running. Like automatons. The SS were running as well, weapons in hand. We looked as though we were running from them. The night was pitch-black. From time to time, a shot exploded in the darkness. They had orders to shoot anyone who could not sustain the pace. Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of the pleasure. If one of us stopped for a second, a quick shot eliminated the filthy dog." (6.3-4) Violence

The SS officers would be abusive and make death threats. They would tell them they were going to be killed to scare the prisoners so that they would listen and do whatever they said. The SS are ordered to do multiple things to make the prisoners suffer. From beating them to killing them. Even though they get orders from their boss to do such things, they get pleasure and enjoy watching the struggling prisoners fall to the ground as they shoot them down. They get rid of any prisoners that do not serve a purpose to them or who do not do the job right. They didn't see anything wrong with treating them with such utter violence. They also thought that what they were doing was to make the world a better place and that just shows how sickening this part in history was. 

"One day when Idek was venting his fury, I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me up again, crushing me with ever more violent blows, until I was covered in blood. As I bit my lips in order not to howl with pain, he must have mistaken my silence for defiance and so he continued to hit me harder and harder. Abruptly, he calmed down and sent me back to work as if nothing had happened. As if we had taken part in a game in which both roles were of equal importance." (4.64-65) Violence

The men are very violent and want to lash out at anything because they are losing their minds. The pressure will get to someone and it drives them to the point of insanity. When someone is under that kind of concept and it's something shocking which is very harsh on their body and mind, everything starts breaking down. Especially when people are getting killed everyday and you're around that. Knowing that any day you can be the next one to get killed. It's is violence that makes no sense and has no purpose. Some men don't even mean to do it and are to the point where they don't even have an idea of how bad it is or what they are doing. Innocent violence is basically the situation. 

Were Jews able to escape from concentration camps? If so, how many and what was the outcome?

Were Jews able to escape concentration camps? and if so, how many and what was the outcome? 

Concentration camps were a horrible place and it was probably just as difficult to tolerate the agony of being inside rather than finding a way to escape. It's hard to just think about how they could withhold the terror and scary situations they had to wake up to every single day. Some even driving them to insanity and others thinking there was a way out. They did not want to be toretured and finally decided to try to escape. It must have been a hard task because of how many soldiers there were and how much protection, tramps etc was set around the camp. As well as surprise gas showers, they never knew when they went inside and could have been killed hours before their escape plan. It sure isn't an easy thing to do, but some had to have made it out. There is also fifty-fifty chance that they made it and got away or they didn't and got caught again. Some even escaped the camps before getting inside but all were eventually found one way or another. According to new research, over 764 Jews jumped from nazi trains. Some even were angered at them because they were scared for themselves. Many would use clever ways to be able to escape like prying open bars of the train to jump off and then successfully fleeing away, others would leave on nightfall (Lipman). A handful of Jews were able to cheat death by escaping and managing to stay out of harms way. I chose this question because a lot of Jews were killed and it is fascinating to know that some were able to get out. The stories they share and that some would still have hope that they would get out of that desperation. 

Some incidents involved transportation with men women and children from Hungary. On May 1944, they were able to escape and ran in the woods, where they hid. Although they were not successful because eventually SS caught up to them and killed them. (The holocaust explained) 

                                                 

                                                                          Citations

Lipman, Ryan. "Revealed: How hundreds of Jews escaped the horrors of Nazi concentration camps by jumping from heavily guarded trains

"The Holocaust explained"

                                                      Citations

Lipman, Ryan. "Revealed: How hundreds of Jews escaped the horrors of Nazi concentration camps by jumping from heavily guarded trains

"The Holocaust explained"